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Grosvenor 8 hours ago

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e-dant 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thought it was obfuscated C code, then I realized it’s a tree or something

devsda 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Challenge issued.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season.

Merry Christmas!

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a022311 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll admit it does look a bit like an IOCCC [0] entry. Can someone please do it for us?

[0]: https://www.ioccc.org/

epicureanideal an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let's ask an LLM as a test!

Wyverald 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c

jb1991 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this text box no matter how many times I try with different formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.

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mckn1ght 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn’t get close, maybe next year!

DrewADesign an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Perl time

Jnr 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)

Grosvenor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Since I might have peoples' attention for a moment (Can no longer edit my original post). Might I suggest the King William's college quiz this Christmas?

https://kwc.im/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GKP_2025_26.pdf

bornabox 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

Thanks for posting. This was fun! Towards the end it gets really hard. Merry Christmas!

wildpeaks an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Merry Christmas !

May your glühwein be hot and your cats purring :)

kylecazar 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That jgs is killing me

opello 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Just because old ASCII and ANSI art is often signed by the author, which is something fun I appreciate, see also:

https://oldcompcz.github.io/jgs/joan_stark/xmas.html#treewit...

And of course, the BBS Documentary: Artscene episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrBbm5ZMlo&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv...

Grosvenor 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text would be useful).

Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!

opello 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Glad I could share it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says:

> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

I assume that's how the top level comment posted the tree which is in a <pre><code> structure.

blinding-streak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This guy was prolific! Wow

OptionOfT 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought this was Advent of Code! Merry Christmas!

gbraad 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lots of great ASCII art by jgs